Destructured

The Problem In the past I’ve always used ruby-debug (or more recently debugger) to set breakpoints and debug my rails integration tests built with Capybara and Selenium. A problem I’ve continually run into is that when the debugger launches it suspends all threads, including both the thread Capybara is running...

Doing integration tests on apps with real-time multi-user features like chat is incredibly useful since it’s a pain to hop between multiple browsers with different users logged in to test them manually. It wasn’t immediately obvious to me that this capability is built into Capybara, but after spotting this post...

Previously we looked at a very simple sample application that uses responders to manage application state. Now that our responder-fu is strong, we can take a further step of using SproutCore routes to manage history via states. The Underlying Technology As amazing as SproutCore is, it did not in fact...

You’ve made it through the Todos tutorial and believe SproutCore is the Next Big Thing, so you start to dig deeper. The term statechart keeps popping up here and there, but it’s not entirely clear how to model and implement one for your app (see discussion). Now there are some...

I spend most of my time using Ruby on Rails, but enjoy exploring other web application frameworks. There’s a wonderful diversity of frameworks out there, with more popping up all the time, but there are two challenges I’ve found with trying to find ones I want to investigate: Keeping track...